Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-27
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COERCION In CANADA.
An Armed Effort to Prevent
the Building of a Rail
road.
A Battle with Mexican Boundary
Troubles increasing.

Smuggiers---Alsaoe-Lorrain
Troubles increasing.
Correction In Canada.
Winnipeg, Man., June, 25-Secret
orders have been issued to local volunteer
battallons to hold themselves in readi-s
ness for service. This is believed to be
q rush on the part Of the domination
government to send volunteers west I'M
der the prefense that another uprising
among the Indians is feared, 80 that the
government can easily carry out the in
tention of preventing Manitoba from
building the road to the boundary. 1t
is said to be the governments intention
to send into Winnipeg the mouated
police, in the absence of the volunteers
and so oc cree this province into submits
sion. Many citizens are discussing the
situation and means are being devised
to meet the government and oheckmate
the scheme. If the federal authorities
resort to force, government house and
and Fort Osborne will be RACED and a
big riot will follow. The people are
all ready to go to any extremity should
the Dominion government attempt
forcible resistance to the scheme 30 dear
to every Manitoban's heart. AS the con.
tractors commence work next week
something must give way and an inter.
estinU time ia aynapEed.
Conflict With Smngglers.
Galveston, June 25-A dispatch from
Eagle Pass to the News says: Inteili-
gence was received here at a late hour
last night that a sanguinary CONFLICT Was
in progress between river guards and
smuggIers at q point fifteen. miles below
Piedras NeRras, in Mexico. The conflict
is still in progress. A scouting party of
river guards and police, numbering
twenty-five Q surprised o band OF
about twenty smugglers, we'll armed,
with a cavsloade Of twenty pack mules
The smugglers at once showed fight and
at the frst voiley two OF the guard fell
dead. The guards fell back and dispatch
ed a courier for reinforcements. The
smugglers fell back towards the Rio
Grande with the evident purpose. oi
crossing the river 10 the American side.
The smugglers in their retreat are keep.
ing mp a desultory skirmish with the
reinforced guards. who are passing them
in the rear. A courier arrived in Piedrss
Negras late this morning from the scene
of action and reports the fight still in
progress, and one more guard killed. The
loss Of the smugglers is not known.
Alsace-LOrrnine Troubles.
Berlin, June 2h-The tone OF the
French press tends to inoiting and in
crease OF the seventies against French
m%alcontents in Alsace-L Lorraine. The
position OF Germans in France has be-
come, under social persecution, barely
tolerable. They would be hunted out Of
the country altogether but for the pro
lection guaranteed them under the
Frankfort treaty. The latest anti-Ger-
man project to which the attention oil
Berlin officials has been directed is the
proposal before the chamber OF deputies
making foreigners resi- lent in France
who may be members of an association
hostile to French interests Liable to fins
and to imprisonment and expulsion
The proposal is capable of such an elias
tic Interpretation as TO cover all Ger
mans s%ojourning in France. The meas
ure, il Unsupported by the government
will be assumed here to be directly hos
tile to the Germans, and will lead to al
energetic remonstranoe as . breach o.
the Frankfort treaty.
The Queen Expresses her Thanks.
London,..June 35-The home score
tary has received the following lette
from the queen: 81 am anxious TO. ex
press to my people my warm thanks TO
the kind-more than kInd-reception
met with going to and returning from
Westminster abbey with oil my child
rem and grand children. The enthusias
Ito reception I met with then, a
we'll as on these eventful days in Londoi
as we'll at Windsor, on the occasion 9
the jubilee, touched me most deeply
1t has shown that the labor and anxiet
OF fifty long years. twenty-five q
which we're spent IN untrouble
happiness, shared by my believe
husband, and while an equal aumbe
we're full of sorrows and trials, born
without his shelterinR arm and his wis
help, have been appreciated by my pee
pie. This feeling and sense Of dut
towards my dear country and my sui
isctH, who arc SO inseparably bound u
with my life, Will encourage me In nj
task, often q very difficult and arduou
one, during the remainder of my life
fhe wonderful order preserved on thi
occasion and good behavior of th
enormous multitude, assembled, meri
my highest admiration. That God ma
protect and abundantly bless m
country, is my fervent prayer"
The July 1nte rest.
Washington, June 25-Secretary Fai
child this afternoon te,egraphed to a
assistant t%reasurers direoting the pay
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